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other big names of pulled out of saudi arabia's major investment conference next week dubbed the davos in the desert among them are top e.u. politicians they include the french and dutch finance ministers and the british trade secretary the international monetary fund's christine lagarde is also out as are c.e.o.'s of j.p. morgan chase and the blackstone group that's a u.s. based financial services company and media partners have also withdrawn including c.n.n. c.n. b c the financial times the new york times and the los angeles times mean all france are suspended political visits to saudi arabia or other e.u. leaders of also voice concerns john a whole as the latest from brussels. if there's been concern about a slow response by european nations at a political level to the alleged murder of jamal khashoggi well that may be changing britain france and the netherlands of all announced that they're withdrawing their ministerial level delegations to that financial investment summit of davos in the desert as it's been dubbed citing that now is simply not the time
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for that level of engagement this was what french president emmanuel macron had to say. leafy. the facts we know today are mr g. extremely serious and worrying we expect is fairly light on this matter we have had exchanges with saudi authorities to clarify all this but in the current circumstances we have sides a postponement political visits including that of our economy minister european countries of course face something of a quandary in their response to saudi arabia do they go in hard on riyadh demanding answers threatening action risking the possibility of wrecking lucrative trade in investment ties particularly in the sale of arms and also very valuable intelligence contacts that have been credited with water going number of attacks on european soil or do they stand behind that much from put to value of the european union the global rules based system casting all else to one side well it seems they are making their minds up now even though the call continues to go out for
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a far off into in the independent investigation this was donald tusk the president of the e.u. council earlier. we need an open transparent and investigation it's all in the best interest of the thoughts of the other and outside the european union but nevertheless watching closely the russian president vladimir putin wary also of a rush to judgment. first of all we should wait for the results of the investigations how can we russia and start to spoiling our relationship with saudi arabia with our not with what in fact happen there. what may happen in future will nobody is quite saying waiting for the investigation to calm clue that one clue though comes from a close ally of angela merkel speaking in berlin on wednesday he said europe may have to adjust its relations with saudi arabia twitter has pulled several accounts
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that were apparently pushing a pro saudi government agenda fall in the disappearance of jamal khashoggi being taken down for violating spam rules a u.s. broadcast network handed over a list of accounts to twitter which have been tweeting the same pro-government messages at the same time or some. associate professor at the university of oklahoma he says the bots were created to influence public opinion inside saudi arabia. the tweets were both in arabic and in english but this crisis has not only affected how people outside of saudi arabia look at hamilton's online there is a great fear i think inside saudi arabia that this will negatively affect his popularity in standing inside the kingdom especially if there are negative economic consequences associated with this gruesome act and we've seen them already and so if saudis then hold him responsible for negative economic consequences to their
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country that's quite concerning so i think these these tweets are primarily directed at saudis to try to sow doubt in their mind that mohammed bin some line in the saudi government are responsible for this and therefore not to blame them for this crisis and amnesty international is calling on tennis stars rafael nadal and novak djokovic to pull out of an exhibition match in saudi arabia in december the king solomon tennis championship was announced shortly after the disappearance of the sound of john the show. the pair were set to take home at least a million dollars for the one if not jed of both tweeted they're looking forward to it however amnesty wants them to use their global popularity to draw attention to the country's poor human rights record. time for short break out as iraq when we come back u.s. president donald trump threatens to deploy the military a large migrant caravan makes its way towards the u.s. through central america more or less stay with us.
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hello again welcome back we're here cross a live on we're seeing plenty of clouds across turkey syria as well as iraq and you can see on sally right there within those clouds we could even be seeing a rain shower or two over the next few days winds are coming out of the south which means relatively warm air there so for baghdad it's going to be a cloudy day here on friday with temperatures about thirty six then as we go towards saturday we are picking up more moisture across the region so more showers particularly over here toward syria as well as into central parts of turkey now speaking of rain showers we've had rain showers across the gulf we still see some clouds here we see those darker spots and in those darker spots we could be picking up a rain shower too we did have that dough in doha here on thursday showers down here towards the southwest as well and then as we go towards saturday we're going to
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start to see things clear up just a little bit temperatures into the mid thirty's maybe abu dhabi at thirty four musket a nice day for you at about thirty degrees there and then very quickly as make way down here towards the southern part of africa well cool for cape town you see the clouds right there along the coast but up towards the north we are looking at johannesburg seeing sunny skies for you at twenty seven but that does not last long we're going to be picking up some more rain and clouds in your forecast as well as durban cooling off with the temperature there of about one thousand degrees. minus signs up for a vote on the false image in the country can move the fond out of the mood in the country and states in. it will go to the lead to medtronic watch so all you will see dad soon tell you all college to be. my night is the first produce first image done you can now think of. my nigeria women are strong we need.
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an al-jazeera. welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here this hour u.s. president donald trump pounds for the first time publicly acknowledged that saudi journey. is likely to be dead he's warned saudi arabia of severe consequences if it's found responsible sector state has asked him to give more time for investigations before deciding on what next. top politicians in the e.u. have pulled out of a major saudi investment conference next week thanks to the french and dutch finance ministers and the british trade secretary as president has decided to
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postpone political visits to saudi arabia until. his no. saudi crown prince has denied any knowledge of what happened but al jazeera has learned that one of his bodyguards the operation which involved fifteen men. now shooting in afghanistan's southern province of kandahar has left three government officials dead the local intelligence chief the police chief and the government were all killed in the latest violence and of saturday's parliamentary election three americans were also injured in the attack on the governor's compound the taliban have claimed responsibility well among the dead was also a top afghan security come on that general abdul razak had previously survived numerous attempts on his life the taliban have repeatedly threatened to disrupt saturday's vote the u.s. defense secretary james mattis says the killing of a top afghan security commander will not shake u.s. commitment. i've met general result. it's a loss of
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a patriot but we remain absolutely committed. to an afghan led afghan reconsolidation. we need to find who's done this. but right now. we are going toward the election and we will continue to defend the people in the nations threatening to cut ties with strain it with a possibility it might read ok to its embassy in is rael australia's prime minister says he's considering the move from tel aviv to jerusalem under thomas as more from sydney. a spokesperson for in these years foreign affairs ministry said that the issue of palestine is very important to indonesia and the people of indonesia and said that depending on what australia did with its embassy in israel they would adjust their policy or actions without spelling out exactly what that meant could that affect a free trade agreement between indonesia and australia which is in its final stages
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in the go see action could it influence whether military cooperation continues between the two countries he didn't spell that out in a more candid exchange of text messages that have been links between the knees as foreign affairs minister and australia's indonesia has told australia is that any move of australia's embassy in israel would be a slap in indonesia's face and will affect bilateral relations now scott morrison australia's prime minister announced that he was considering moving australia's embassy in israel on shoestring and that immediately spot that he's asian but he was doing it for political reasons on saturday there was an important by election in sydney in a city that has a very high jewish population twelve and a half percent cynics say that he was announcing this consideration of a move of the embassy because about by election which is an important one because the government to lose it it would take away the majority in parliament it's also now been revealed that on monday australia's intelligence service is the prime
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minister a potential unrest even violence in gaza and the west bank australia to confirm its move of its embassy scott morrison the prime minister says at the moment there is no suggestion that's going to be violence based on what he has announced as a consideration and that's all it is at the moment just considering a move nothing definite has been decided china's economic slowdown is deepening as its trade war with the united states gets worse the world's second biggest economy grew six point five percent in the third quarter of this year that's its weakest quarterly growth since the global financial crisis in two thousand and nine the chinese economy has also started coming under pressure from u.s. tires on more than two hundred fifty billion dollars of its exports. to singapore now where the u.s. secretary of defense james mattis were meeting with his counterparts at a regional security summit there's been increased tensions with china after the u.s. sent to be fifty two bombers over the disputed south china sea bright as more from
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singapore. this gathering of defense ministers from southeast asia is an annual event to discuss regional security issues bit as is often the case with these events it's the small the bilateral meetings taking place on the sidelines that provide more interest and the focus this year is upon the meeting between the u.s. defense secretary james mattis and his chinese counterpart wait phone given the deteriorating state of relations between the united states and china we don't know exactly what was discussed what was the outcome but the fact that they met a tall is being seen as progress here given the fact that mattis is a visit to beijing where he was meant to meet with way that was canceled as their relations have deteriorated with the u.s. accusing china of meddling in its elections of stealing gets military technology and more pressingly for the delegates here at this meeting accusing the chinese of
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a military build up in the south china sea both the united states and china seem to accept that keeping high level relations going between their two defense ministers is important as a way of diffusing any possible clashes in the future or misunderstandings as we saw recently in the past couple of weeks with a very near collision between two warships in the south china sea still the united states insists that it will continue to carry out what it calls these freedom of navigation exercises exercising what it sees as its right to send its warships through these waters and also its aircraft with to be fifty two bombers. a patrol across the south china sea within the past few days. u.s. president donald trump is threatening to deploy the military to stop a caravan of central american migrants heading to its southern border
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a caravan of some four thousand people began in honduras on saturday it's making its way through guatemala and then mexico well today reports. they've been hiking through muddy jungles. and crossing rivers traveling for a week now from hong tourists to guatemala determined to find sanctuary in the united states you know and then one day i was bought by son was murdered and criminal gangs threaten my daughter that's why i am leaving. many have left their homes to find a safer place to live others only want to chance to work and earn a living. i don't know there were no jobs there was no work it was hard to live in honduras there was nothing to eat. and nothing will deter them not police forces nor border agents not even the threat from president donald trump to deploy
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the u.s. military. but they will not stop us only god can stop us donald trump is nobody even if he is the president of the united states will not stop us mexico has started processing the first of the migrants who arrive those with passports and visas will be allowed to enter others will have to apply to enter as refugees. and where we are a peaceful caravan are not hurting anyone right in the street we're looking for a new life a better future. with thousands of kilometers until they reach the u.s. border with mexico hope for better life continues to push these migrants north pole chad urging on al-jazeera. california is planning to change a controversial sentencing system the so-called three strikes and you're out policy its or some people ending up in jail for life for nonviolent and lesser offensive as rob reynolds reports the state will now allow thousands of inmates to seek
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parole. three strikes and you're out a term taken from the american sport of baseball is spent in life behind bars for thousands of nonviolent repeat offenders in california studies indicate nonviolent inmates in prison under the law which was enacted in one nine hundred ninety four are disproportionately black and many are mentally ill some are serving life sentences for offenses as trivial as shoplifting stealing a bottle of liquor or possessing small amounts of narcotics now california plans to allow approximately four thousand third strike inmates to seek parole none are guaranteed release and a corrections department spokeswoman said they will undergo rigorous public safety screening before parole board decisions are made california voters approved changing the three strikes law two years ago but the state's governor jerry brown
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has challenged the changes in court brown has agreed to drop further legal action lawyers representing nonviolent offenders sentenced under the law called the decision monumental what this really does is it recognizes that some of these people are the lowest risk prisoners and the california state prison system they have. done it immense amount of programming they've done i meant about education work while they're in prison by by the prison system is own risk assessment these people are disproportionately low risk to re-offend once they're released in the community. state records show that nonviolent third strike prisoners released in an earlier round of paroles were much less likely to commit additional crimes once they were back in society. twenty seven u.s. states besides california have three strikes and you're out laws they were in acted during a time when it was very politically popular to appear tough on crime there had been
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an epidemic. violence due to crack cocaine in many american cities in the late one nine hundred eighty s. and early one nine hundred ninety s. and these laws were passed at that time since then of course the crime rate nationwide has dropped very significantly and social scientists and criminologists are still trying to figure out the reasons for that decline robert oulds al-jazeera los angeles all in it was of course on our website there it is on your screen the address al-jazeera dot com. a picture of the headlines here in al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has for the first time publicly acknowledged that saudi german is jamal khashoggi is likely to be dead he's warned a saudi arabia of severe consequences if it's found to be responsible as secretary
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of state has asked him to give riyadh more time for deciding on what to do next we made it clear to them that we take this matter with respect to mr show he very seriously they made clear to me that they too understand the serious nature of the disappearance of mystical shogi they also assured me that they will conduct a complete thorough. investigation of all of the facts surrounding mr to show you that they will do so at a timely fashion and we have a long just one nine hundred thirty two home along strategic relationship with the kingdom of saudi arabia that continue to be important counterterrorism partner they have custody of the two holy sites they are an important strategic alliance of the united states and we need to be mindful of that as well well the saudi crown prince has denied any knowledge of what happened but al jazeera has learned that one of his bodyguard was allegedly in charge of the operation which involved fifteen men i'm just international is calling for the u.n. to urgently establish an investigation. the reason that we need to do it because we
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actually believe it is the thing they sleep and eat division to actually do something so it's not that we've given up on us even though we do think that it is only even recent ten years and disability and passing new time is running again and there are still awaits you to me this is the way to get involved here in the us to do right now because every time he places them in even a second general we can see enables another tragedy and literacy skills in a new population that is ethically and everything with. a number of senior european union politicians are pulled out of a major saudi investment conference next week thanks to the french and dutch finance minister on the british trade secretary more than forty members of the u.s. congress are written to president trump calling for sanctions against saudi arabia
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